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Monday Mini: Another Update on Gaming! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha and welcome to stuff.
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Speaker 1: We never told your production by Heart Radio.
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Speaker 2: And welcome back for another Monday mini. Well, we're kind
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Speaker 2: of gonna go for our distractions. We're gonna go into
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Speaker 2: an update about some of our pastime, some of the
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Speaker 2: ways that we decompress from the world at large, and
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Speaker 2: we're coming back for a gaming roundup. Yeah, we did
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Speaker 2: a full episode at the end of last year at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of this year. What was this, say, ten
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Speaker 2: thousand years ago.
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Speaker 1: We recorded the episode at the end of last year
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Speaker 1: and it came out at the end of last year
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Speaker 1: on tech Stuff, but in our feed it came out
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not just me being in a time
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Speaker 2: lapse and time loop of all eternity. Great anyway, But
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Speaker 2: we did one with Jonathan from tech Stuff about cozy gaming,
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Speaker 2: and I got some really great suggestions from that episode
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Speaker 2: to try out. So we also have some lists of
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Speaker 2: new games that you and I are looking into as well,
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Speaker 2: So I thought we would just come back around have
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Speaker 2: a leisurely conversation about video games and gaming in general.
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Speaker 1: Also, just to be clear, none of these are sponsors
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Speaker 1: we're just we're just talking about them yet. Yeah, for
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Speaker 1: real contact us.
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Speaker 2: I will say some of the games that I tried
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Speaker 2: on tech stuff, I did not get very far gone home.
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Speaker 2: I got to the front door. That's how it begins, y'all.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out how to open the door, so
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Speaker 2: I quit. I feel like that's gonna be a game
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Speaker 2: that I'm gonna have to watch someone else play and
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Speaker 2: enjoy it that way.
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Speaker 1: It's just a short game. The only thing is, like
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Speaker 1: you have to read a lot of text, like you're
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Speaker 1: kind of discovering what happened via journals. So I don't know, Like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are some video that have done it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how clear it is.
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Speaker 2: Well, go, I'll try it again. Maybe someone gonna tell
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Speaker 2: me how to open the door.
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Speaker 1: Gets in the door, I can help you open the door.
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Speaker 2: Okay, help me open the door, because y'all, I don't
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Speaker 2: have skills anyway when it comes to gaming. But let's
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Speaker 2: get into an update. Annie, give us an update. I
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Speaker 2: know some excitement is happening. Some feeds are coming through
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Speaker 2: with the Last of Us and Last of Us two
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Speaker 2: updates coming up. Have you done a playthrough in preparation.
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Speaker 1: For the second season, which, by the way, they broke
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Speaker 1: the second game up into what I believe three seasons.
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Speaker 2: Oh really, yes, uh, I mean there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of storylines, so that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Yes, But it is going to be because we are
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Speaker 1: bringing back our last of Us specials. I'm very excited
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Speaker 1: about it. Today I woke up and was like, that
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Speaker 1: is less than a month away, and I cannot believe it.
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be very difficult. We are going
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Speaker 1: to manage it. We are going to do it. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be very difficult with the spoilers, just because
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Speaker 1: they're splitting it up that way. I am going to
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Speaker 1: replay the game before it comes out. I haven't started
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Speaker 1: it yet because, as I've said multiple times, people be
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Speaker 1: yelling at me about this fan fiction. I haven't so
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Speaker 1: I had to do that, which I did do. So
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Speaker 1: maybe this weekend. Maybe this weekend I'll start. But I
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Speaker 1: did do. I'm excited about that and I finished. I've
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Speaker 1: mentioned I've been playing The Silent Hill to remake. I
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Speaker 1: finished my most recent playthrough that I was doing with
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine that I grew up with, Katie,
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Speaker 1: where she used to she was my person in the
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Speaker 1: chair and she'd be on the walk through telling me
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Speaker 1: what to do, which is such a different time now,
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Speaker 1: but it was a fun, nostalgic memory for us. And
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Speaker 1: I was just telling Samith, I've started watching gaming videos
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Speaker 1: just about the history of games, and I've really enjoyed that.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot that we could be talking about. There's
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Speaker 2: so many niche things that we have talked about, but
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Speaker 2: we need to come and revisit. That's what I think
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Speaker 2: we probably can take some of the older episodes and
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Speaker 2: we have, but go back to because I was thinking
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Speaker 2: about into matriosis not too long ago and PCOS and
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Speaker 2: just kind of like, is there new discoveries? Is there
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Speaker 2: new conversations between what ten years ago twol years ago
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Speaker 2: when Kristen and Caroline we talk about it too today
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Speaker 2: and games are one of those, like we've talked about
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Speaker 2: it several times, but we haven't gone through the niche details.
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Speaker 2: And I think we could really do that if we
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Speaker 2: wanted to, if the world would stop being awful, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and if it would just become boring again where everything
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Speaker 2: was seemingly progressing and we could just celebrate all the
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Speaker 2: time beautiful. But anyway, gaming videos, I probably should be
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Speaker 2: watching some of those two so it can help me
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Speaker 2: go through doors.
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Speaker 1: I just kind of like, like I was telling you,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite recent ones I watched was about
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Speaker 1: the old technology fears we used to have when your
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Speaker 1: Xbox would have their red ring or your PlayStation would
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Speaker 1: give you the blue screen.
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Speaker 2: The minute you said that, my partner and then old
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Speaker 2: old producer of the show Andrew just lit up with
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Speaker 2: all the conversations they had, and I just sat there
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Speaker 2: and I was like, I just watched my brother yellow
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Speaker 2: because he wouldn't let me play. To be very fair,
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Speaker 2: I sucked them too, So there's both of us. So
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Speaker 2: my world. I am still doing a lot of mobile gaming.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot out there that are like rebrands of
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Speaker 2: rebrands of rebrands, trying to step away from some of
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Speaker 2: the more popular ones. But I still love. My favorite
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Speaker 2: one right now still is Love and Pies, and I've
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Speaker 2: talked about them before, and I have caught up so
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Speaker 2: much that I have to wait for updates weekly for
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Speaker 2: new scenarios or scenes to be played out. They do
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Speaker 2: a good job in bringing like other competitive elements that
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Speaker 2: they do while you're waiting, so you collect all your
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Speaker 2: coins so you can build your little shop. But I've
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Speaker 2: bypassed all those. That's how far I am. They are
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Speaker 2: still keeping up with some beautiful storylines. I did do
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Speaker 2: a whole like they did a whole like survey, what
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Speaker 2: do you enjoy? What do you not enjoy? So I
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Speaker 2: got to give them all of my opinions. The storylines
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Speaker 2: are great, the love matches are cute. I actually this
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Speaker 2: is the first time that I've seen, Like there have
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Speaker 2: been many of video games where obviously they're in relationships
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Speaker 2: and it's implied they're in relationships. There are straight relationships,
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Speaker 2: and then there are like queer relationships and it's really beautiful.
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Speaker 2: But there's one queer relationship. I was like, oh, and
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Speaker 2: they actually have them kiss and it like zooms in
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Speaker 2: as if it's like a portrait moment of the lesbian
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Speaker 2: couple kissing. It was like, wow, I've never actually seen
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Speaker 2: that on a mobile game. It's just implied and then
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Speaker 2: moves on, you know, And so to see them actually
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Speaker 2: highlight the kiss, I was like, Oh, and it's all animations.
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Speaker 2: The graphics are really cute. I've talked about them before,
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Speaker 2: so I'm like, you know what, Yes, I like that
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Speaker 2: they're stepping up to it instead of like falling back
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Speaker 2: into this ridiculous conservative craze of being too woke or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, anyway, it didn't fit. Everything fit,
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Speaker 2: It didn't feel like it was fishing for anything. It
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Speaker 2: just it was very sweet line. But anyway, I just
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Speaker 2: was like, Hey, that's nice to see that they're still
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Speaker 2: continuing down this route, not trying to backtrack like so
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Speaker 2: many cowardice companies that we've seen. Anyway, but so love
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Speaker 2: and pies still love it. I will still pay a
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Speaker 2: little money for it for extras because they deserve it
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Speaker 2: and I want them to keep updating. I would be
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Speaker 2: very sad if they didn't, you know. But uh, also
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Speaker 2: on my switch, I've been playing my cozy Grove. They
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Speaker 2: had a little festival that Christmas festivals and all of
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Speaker 2: that you collect. I'm not good at stuff like this
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Speaker 2: where you collect and build on things. Yeah, so care enough. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't think I like the I like the daily
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Speaker 2: like hunts. So you're supposed to find a specific items
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Speaker 2: per bear, and the more memories that they collect, the
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Speaker 2: like they become real and I don't know if they
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Speaker 2: ever descend. They get like full images instead of just
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Speaker 2: being ghostly figures. I guess I'm gonna have to try
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Speaker 2: to finish it. Oh, I don't know if there is
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Speaker 2: a finish.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this other day. I used to
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Speaker 1: pause a game right before the end because I just
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Speaker 1: couldn't bear to finish it. But shows, I'm like, end it.
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Speaker 1: But for some reason with games, I'm like, I put
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Speaker 1: so much time and now you're gonna tell me.
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Speaker 2: You take it away from me.
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Speaker 1: So for I just watched the credit and cry, it's.
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Speaker 2: Never really Annie, Never you're ready, You're right, Okay. So
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Speaker 2: those are some of our updates. I haven't done much
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Speaker 2: with Animal Crossing because again, trying to design and create
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Speaker 2: things I'm not really good at. So I gotta figure
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Speaker 2: that maybe I could bring someone in, tag someone in
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Speaker 2: to do that part. You want to come do that
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Speaker 2: for me?
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Speaker 1: But I know that just makes me laugh. I wonder
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Speaker 1: if that's a business someone started up or.
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Speaker 2: Something Elijah Woods has done this. Hey, Elijah Woods, just
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Speaker 2: in case you ever catch this episode and you want
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Speaker 2: to fit you need to finish someone else's island on
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Speaker 2: me U email us. Someone's gonna be like, what in
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Speaker 2: the world but new games? Annie? Have you discovered some
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Speaker 2: new games recently.
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Speaker 1: I have running joke with gamers is that you always
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Speaker 1: have a huge backlog. I have a huge backlog, so
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Speaker 1: currently I'm trying to work through shorter games that I
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Speaker 1: can finish pretty quickly. So I just played Dopy Doky
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Speaker 1: Literature Club, which I had heard about for a long time.
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Speaker 1: This is a game that if anyone doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: be spoiled on this game, it is amazing and don't
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Speaker 1: get spoiled on it, so if you need to skip
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Speaker 1: ahead a little bit. But it's a game where you're
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Speaker 1: playing as a dude, and it's very like picturesque anime
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Speaker 1: and you're basically trying to find a love match. But
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Speaker 1: guess what, things go wrong really quickly. Your best friend
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Speaker 1: kills herself and then, through like poetry games, you start
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Speaker 1: choosing who you're going to be with of the people
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Speaker 1: who are and also they all pretend she never existed
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Speaker 1: after this. But anyway, so you're playing this poetry game
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Speaker 1: and you sort of choose someone to be with, but
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Speaker 1: it goes horribly wrong and things start going wrong with
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Speaker 1: your screen whatever you're playing it on. There's glitches and
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Speaker 1: strange things start happening and then at one point, like
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Speaker 1: I literally thought the game was frozen, and it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: It just makes you wait for a very long time,
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Speaker 1: and then you learn that basically the main character, Monica,
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Speaker 1: realizes she's in a game and she doesn't like that
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Speaker 1: she's not the one you chose, and she has a
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Speaker 1: really creepy scene where she's just like talking to you
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Speaker 1: and it will keep going and going and going until
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Speaker 1: you delete the game and her from you, and then
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Speaker 1: you restart it and she's she's like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm really angry at you, but I still love you,
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna let you live this life. But then
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Speaker 1: the other characters are like they're in a game.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Then it's just really creepy and it was really creative
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Speaker 1: and I really liked it. I was scared to go
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Speaker 1: in and delete that stuff, though, and you have to
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Speaker 1: delete your like saved game, and.
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Speaker 2: See, I don't think I could. I couldn't. I couldn't
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Speaker 2: probably get past certain things, but I probably I don't
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Speaker 2: know I deleting things.
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Speaker 1: She she kind of tells you how to do it,
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Speaker 1: but I was like scared I was gonna mess something up,
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Speaker 1: so I looked it up.
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Speaker 2: I was like, to be clear, I wouldn't looking it
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Speaker 2: up is what I'm trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, but I really really recommend it. But it
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Speaker 1: is disturbing. It is very disturbing. The imagery is disturbing,
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Speaker 1: and I was left unsettled. And there are multiple endings.
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Speaker 1: I've only gotten a few of them, and I think
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Speaker 1: the last one is I don't want to put in
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Speaker 1: the work for that, but I know what it is,
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Speaker 1: so oh okay, that's enough for me. Wow, it's creepy.
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Speaker 1: And then I told you they'd use your name because
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Speaker 1: they use it from your profile. It's like, hey, Annie,
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Speaker 1: oh no.
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Speaker 2: I throw things like in my mind, it's a curse,
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Speaker 2: so that means I have to throw it.
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Speaker 1: It was scary like it. It unsettled me deeply mm hmmmm.
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Speaker 1: And just the things as they start going wrong, oh no,
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Speaker 1: and then it just resets and they make you feel
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Speaker 1: like you're you're losing your mind because they're all like,
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Speaker 1: oh no, we don't know what you're talking about. Like, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I just.
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Speaker 2: Saw someone die, saw gaslighting you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, that's what my most recent new game.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that sounds like an interesting take well, I've
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Speaker 2: gotten three new games, and one of them was Unpacking,
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Speaker 2: which is what we've already talked about. We talked about
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Speaker 2: about with Jonathan and he actually really really recommended I've
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Speaker 2: seen it. It just seemed like such an absurd thing
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Speaker 2: that I didn't want to do it, and I know
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Speaker 2: I've talked about it before, but I was like, all right,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna try it. Y'all love it. I love it
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Speaker 2: that there's something that really personal about it too, though,
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Speaker 2: because you through the items that they carry and they
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Speaker 2: cross over to whomver you're unpacking for, you see their
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Speaker 2: childhood to adulthood. It's really interesting that you can see
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Speaker 2: when she has her first boyfriend, that she's living with them,
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Speaker 2: and you can see when they're like had their first house.
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Speaker 2: I guess, and I say, she, I guess. My perspective
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Speaker 2: is because that's how I see it. It's really interesting.
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Speaker 2: I really like it. And then there is I just
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Speaker 2: did the demo first because I was like, I don't
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Speaker 2: know how I feel about this Dredge, and I believe
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Speaker 2: this was one of the recommendations as well. But I
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Speaker 2: love the one thing I do love, but Animal Crossing
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Speaker 2: is catching fish. That's Cozy Grove does the same thing,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, all right, I can do this. This
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Speaker 2: is fine, I can I can do this. So it's
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Speaker 2: a fishing game with quests and mystery, and there's also
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Speaker 2: the eye. It looks like the Eye of sour On.
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Speaker 2: But then like there are moments when you're on the
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Speaker 2: boat that you just see eye flashing at you. Have
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Speaker 2: you played this game?
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Speaker 1: No, but I it's in my library. After we get
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Speaker 1: that episode, I'm excited to try it.
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Speaker 2: So they're like, and I didn't know what that means.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. So I don't think
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Speaker 2: I know that yet. But I think it's just like
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Speaker 2: because the illusion when you see the red so there's
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Speaker 2: just like it is it always like the Eye of
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Speaker 2: sore On because it comes like flares up this giant
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Speaker 2: red beam. I'm not trying to share, not really sure
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Speaker 2: where's from. And then like if you cross into certain areas,
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Speaker 2: you realize there's rocks and you don't know until it
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Speaker 2: opens itself up like it kind of does like a
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Speaker 2: laser reval, you know what I mean. And I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I've hit I've hit two, I've hit two of them.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, I've also realized I don't know how
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Speaker 2: to use a compass. Well, no, I need to work
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Speaker 2: on my skills on that, because it tells you one
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Speaker 2: point go south, and I was like, what does that mean?
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Speaker 2: I am one of those people, y'all. But it is
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Speaker 2: really interesting. This is a description it gives on the site.
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Speaker 2: Dredge is a single player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent.
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Speaker 2: Sell your catch upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths
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Speaker 2: for long buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago, and discover
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Speaker 2: why some things are best left forgotten. The graphics are cool,
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Speaker 2: but it's like old timey look of you know, early
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Speaker 2: century fishing harbor towns. So it's interesting. I have to
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Speaker 2: navigate how to figure out what to use because this
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Speaker 2: is the part of my problem is I don't read
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Speaker 2: all of the instructions. Yeah that yes, yeah, And so
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Speaker 2: it's like you need to do this, press this button
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Speaker 2: to do this button to this button. I'm like, why
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Speaker 2: is there so many buttons? Just give me the three buttons.
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Speaker 2: But I have done two quests. I have to figure
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Speaker 2: out how to go south. I'm very to this game
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Speaker 2: because I wasn't like very invested. I feel like I'm
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Speaker 2: buying a lot of games and I'm like, I can't
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Speaker 2: play this. This is not my thing. So I was
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Speaker 2: trying to do the demo first, but I like it
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Speaker 2: thus far. That's far. I found a lot of bottles
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Speaker 2: with hidden messages m m hm, so I'm on that one.
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Speaker 2: And then also I looked up and this is not
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Speaker 2: I don't think it was. I don't think he recommended it,
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Speaker 2: but I saw it on a lot of lists. MEL
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Speaker 2: time you play a male Scout, so this is a
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Speaker 2: description they give. You're afresh on the job, male Scout,
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Speaker 2: on track to complete your very first mal delivery. Keep
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Speaker 2: by the way, glide, jump and talk your way through
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Speaker 2: the grumblewood grove on your way to deliver the letter
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Speaker 2: and become a full fledged male Scout. So, first of all,
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Speaker 2: the options in how you create your player or your
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Speaker 2: avatar great. It has sliding skills for like tone, skin tone,
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Speaker 2: and hair. I was like, oh, wow, that's a great option,
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Speaker 2: Like you don't have to be in my case burnt yellow,
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Speaker 2: which is in some games, you know, like it's really nice,
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Speaker 2: and like oh, and then super cute graphics, all the
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Speaker 2: little animals, all of the areas is nice. I will say,
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Speaker 2: much like other games, I can't quite grasp the jumping
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Speaker 2: to places. I'm figuring that part out and glitchy. It
18:19
Speaker 2: feels glitchy, but I think it's me playing it and
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Speaker 2: pressing the wrong button, So that's on me. That's on me. Also,
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Speaker 2: at the very beginning one of the quests, I think
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Speaker 2: it's a badger. He accuses of a rabbit kid of
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Speaker 2: stealing his money because he's a second late on something,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, well, damn all are mean. They
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Speaker 2: are very feisty characters like they They're very sarcastic with
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Speaker 2: each other. I have discovered if you ask too many
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Speaker 2: questions or talking to someone too long, they're like, why
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Speaker 2: are you here? But it's still very cute, thank you.
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Speaker 2: So I'm excited as I'm trying to figure this out
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Speaker 2: and navigate this game. You know, if it has cute
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Speaker 2: graphics and really cute animals with the easy quests, I'm in.
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Speaker 2: I'm in and all that. By the way, I don't
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Speaker 2: think I said this most of these games. All of
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Speaker 2: these games were unless it's like Last of Us. Some
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Speaker 2: of the bigger games were created by women. So we
19:12
Speaker 2: are trying to focus a little more on all of that,
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Speaker 2: of course. But yeah, so those are the similar games
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Speaker 2: that I am currently I have currently purchased, and I'm
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Speaker 2: now trying to play. We'll see how that goes. I'm
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Speaker 2: nervous about this fishing one. I wonder how sad this
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Speaker 2: is gonna be. It's giving sadness, and there's like a
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Speaker 2: whole bundle. They have different packages too, So I got
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Speaker 2: the original listeners. If you've played this, tell me what
19:42
Speaker 2: I'm in for, give me a warning. I should have
19:46
Speaker 2: probably asked that before I started playing those games. Which's nice,
19:50
Speaker 2: gonna be bad? And then yeah, I thought we would
20:02
Speaker 2: take a section to say of games that we do
20:04
Speaker 2: want to play or that we will be looking at,
20:08
Speaker 2: and whether or not you have played listeners and what
20:10
Speaker 2: your thoughts are on it. I will tell you I
20:13
Speaker 2: specifically looked into games created by black women because I
20:16
Speaker 2: was kind of like, hey, we let's diverse, diversify this conversation.
20:20
Speaker 2: We want to see what other opportunities we know when
20:23
Speaker 2: it comes to the gaming industry, they are not kind
20:25
Speaker 2: to women, and they're especially not kind to women of color,
20:29
Speaker 2: specifically black women in this industry. So I was looking
20:32
Speaker 2: and you'll hop the list is so short. It's so small,
20:36
Speaker 2: and oddly enough, none of them I could find. They're
20:40
Speaker 2: not on Nintendo Switch, which is my preferred console, because
20:44
Speaker 2: I'm now very familiar with it, and you know how
20:47
Speaker 2: that goes when you're comfortable with the one that's what
20:49
Speaker 2: you want to do. None of them are on there Nintendo.
20:54
Speaker 2: What gives bro I say condescendingly. But they are available
21:02
Speaker 2: on Steam and one of the games I'm very interested
21:04
Speaker 2: in is a Tiny Bird Garden is the name, and
21:09
Speaker 2: this is how they describe it on the tinybirdgarden dot com.
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Speaker 2: A game about tiny bird friends I'm in. First of all,
21:18
Speaker 2: it says, welcome to Tiny Bird Garden, a game all
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Speaker 2: about meeting, treating, and befriending a quirky cast of little birds.
21:25
Speaker 2: Customize your own garden space with a variety of toys
21:29
Speaker 2: for playtime over one hundred birds, each with their own favorites,
21:33
Speaker 2: friendship levels, and other surprises, and it says you can
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Speaker 2: go and check them out on Steam and itch dot io.
21:41
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what that is, and I feel
21:43
Speaker 2: really old saying thing like that, So you kids tell
21:46
Speaker 2: me what that is. It's also on PC and Mac
21:50
Speaker 2: but I will be downloading this. My Steam deck is
21:53
Speaker 2: right now charging up so I can go and purchase
21:56
Speaker 2: these things because, first of all, that's adorable and que
21:58
Speaker 2: I wants it. Developers are super retro duck and created
22:03
Speaker 2: by black women, and I think I've seen several games
22:06
Speaker 2: from their shop, or at least they're working on from
22:10
Speaker 2: what I gather, so I am interested in seeing what
22:13
Speaker 2: other stuff they have. But this is one that's super cute.
22:15
Speaker 2: I think they do have mobile, so I'm not gonna
22:17
Speaker 2: do that too because I love good mobile games, but
22:20
Speaker 2: I do want to also, you know, purchase it if
22:22
Speaker 2: I can force the Steam But it looks really cute.
22:25
Speaker 2: The birds are super cute, you know, I love a
22:27
Speaker 2: good animation. It's cute. And then we also have another
22:35
Speaker 2: one that I will not be playing. I think this
22:38
Speaker 2: is the one that I want to look at, and
22:39
Speaker 2: then last my partner if he wants to play it
22:42
Speaker 2: because it looks hard. But ron ghosts, uh huh have
22:46
Speaker 2: you heard of this game?
22:48
Speaker 1: No, but I used to play a bunch of games
22:50
Speaker 1: called Crono Cross and Corono Trigger, and so I was like,
22:53
Speaker 1: is this.
22:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I saw Chrono Trigger, but this Chrono Ghost
22:57
Speaker 2: it says. So this is what they say on their site,
23:00
Speaker 2: which is Nighttime Studios dot com, which I believe is
23:02
Speaker 2: a black owned game studio. Here's what they say. You
23:07
Speaker 2: are the Chrono Ghost. You most progress through challenging levels
23:10
Speaker 2: using your newly acquired abilities. As you progress, your adventure
23:14
Speaker 2: becomes considerably more demanding. Go forth and test your dexterity. Hurry,
23:19
Speaker 2: time is running out. All that tells me that I
23:21
Speaker 2: would not be good at this game.
23:23
Speaker 1: That kind of sounds like a game I really like
23:25
Speaker 1: called Braid, And yeah, you would not like that game,
23:28
Speaker 1: but I don't know. It could be very difficult.
23:30
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna tell you put this on your list. Ay, Okay,
23:34
Speaker 2: this is the story. As the Chrono Ghost, you have
23:36
Speaker 2: the responsibility of proving yourself to the Spirit of Time.
23:41
Speaker 2: You also seek the truth to some unanswered questions. How
23:44
Speaker 2: did you end up here? Why are you the Chrono Ghost?
23:48
Speaker 2: Who or what is the Spirit of Time? Why are
23:52
Speaker 2: you chosen to complete the Spirit of Times tests? B
23:58
Speaker 2: So you're any I have to you, Okay.
24:04
Speaker 1: I'll take on this assignment because I don't think I
24:06
Speaker 1: can do it.
24:07
Speaker 2: I think I'd be very sad in trying to do so,
24:10
Speaker 2: and then another one that I'm very very excited to try.
24:13
Speaker 2: I really wanted to do this Sweetheart by Cat Small,
24:16
Speaker 2: but he says from their site, can you get through
24:19
Speaker 2: a week in the life of a modern Black woman? Sweetheart?
24:22
Speaker 2: And it's written as sweet ex heart, but you say, Sweetheart,
24:26
Speaker 2: I just discovered this and reading This is a slice
24:30
Speaker 2: of life visual novel about microaggression, race, and gender. The
24:34
Speaker 2: game shares creative technologists Cat Small's perspective on being a
24:37
Speaker 2: black woman seeking success in life's school and her career.
24:41
Speaker 2: Players act as Kara, a nineteen year old girl from
24:44
Speaker 2: the Bronx who attends an art college and interns at
24:47
Speaker 2: a tech company. Over five fictional days, players experience the
24:51
Speaker 2: highs and lows of life, including small interactions such as
24:54
Speaker 2: swiping a phone in the morning to wake up, getting
24:56
Speaker 2: dressed in the morning, and commuting to work. My new
24:59
Speaker 2: choice says such as the chosen type of outfit affect
25:02
Speaker 2: Kara's life. Her stress level changes based on interactions with
25:06
Speaker 2: other characters. So it gives credit to Katsmall for the
25:11
Speaker 2: game design, programming, and art and writing. But then she
25:15
Speaker 2: has a lot of people on here, like like Foon
25:17
Speaker 2: when who does sound effects in music Ian does music
25:21
Speaker 2: for morning Commute and arihil Martinez for music for the
25:25
Speaker 2: evening Commute. And I'm really interested because that's such a
25:28
Speaker 2: very specific type of game and I want to know
25:32
Speaker 2: what this is like. So I will be doing that
25:34
Speaker 2: one too. Y'all should do it as well. Again, this
25:38
Speaker 2: only on Steam. It also says itch dot io, I
25:42
Speaker 2: need to figure out what this is. But anyway, and
25:46
Speaker 2: also it looks like you can support her work individually
25:49
Speaker 2: if you want to look that up. By the way, yes,
25:52
Speaker 2: for if you're listening to this in chronological order, we'll
25:56
Speaker 2: see tomorrow we will be featuring a black women in
25:59
Speaker 2: gaming as part of our activists around the world. What
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Speaker 2: about you? Which on your list?
26:05
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I have a long list. Here are some.
26:10
Speaker 1: I want to preface this by saying, both, this is
26:13
Speaker 1: kind of a throwback to the pandemic because back when
26:17
Speaker 1: I was still tweeting in the pandemic, I would ask people.
26:22
Speaker 1: I would give people four games and have them be like, Okay,
26:26
Speaker 1: which is the one I should play? And so this
26:29
Speaker 1: is sort of a hey, if you have any preferences
26:32
Speaker 1: on what I should play next on my very long
26:34
Speaker 1: list please write in. Also, I feel like I recently
26:38
Speaker 1: found my new post pandemic haircutting person because the person
26:44
Speaker 1: I had left during the pandemic, and I told her
26:47
Speaker 1: I love Last of Us and she was like, here
26:49
Speaker 1: are the games you must play, So she gave me
26:53
Speaker 1: a lot of suggestions. So I really want to play Undertail,
26:58
Speaker 1: mostly because I know that it so I love a
27:01
Speaker 1: different take on a game, and it has a take
27:04
Speaker 1: where you can get through and not kill any enemies,
27:09
Speaker 1: and it has one where you can go through and
27:11
Speaker 1: destroy them all. So I'm really interested to play that
27:14
Speaker 1: for some of the horror games, which is what I
27:18
Speaker 1: go to for comfort, right Soma Alan Wake, Alan Wake two,
27:25
Speaker 1: The Cat Lady Catherine Pentiment, which Jonathan recommended to us,
27:31
Speaker 1: The Quarry Still Wakes the Deep, and Slay the Princess,
27:35
Speaker 1: which Slay the Princess looks very beautiful in the artwork
27:40
Speaker 1: and it reminds me of a game that I have
27:42
Speaker 1: talked about before on here called The Path, where you're
27:46
Speaker 1: playing Little Red Riding Hood but the only way to
27:49
Speaker 1: win is to not succeed in your task. I don't know.
27:54
Speaker 1: Also control because it keeps coming up in my video
27:57
Speaker 1: game videos. But yeah, I got a lot of game games.
28:00
Speaker 1: So if you have any suggestions, right, which one I
28:03
Speaker 1: should start with? Yeah?
28:06
Speaker 2: Well I told you which one other you should start with.
28:09
Speaker 1: Well, you've given me an assignment.
28:11
Speaker 2: Yes, fa, we'll check it on six months.
28:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. We do have these gaming updates fairly often.
28:20
Speaker 2: Right, this is a release for us, as many other things.
28:23
Speaker 2: But mm hmm, guest listeners, if you have other suggestions,
28:29
Speaker 2: tell me how to get through the door. You know
28:31
Speaker 2: all the things I can help Let us know.
28:33
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28:39
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28:42
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